The Progress., 1887-12-03

Ward Beecher, at q salary OF sic, 600 per
year.
The twenty-frst annual session Of the
National Grange began at Lansing, Mich,
on. the 10th, nearly every State in the
Union being represented.
A LARGE vein of fine quality of coal was
discovered at Cayuga. Ind, on the 10th, It
was said on good authority that the new
coal fields embraced territory OF ten thou
sand acres.
FOREST fires were again raging on the
10th in the neighborhood of Hilisboro, Ill,
and Gresham and Walshville townships
were suffering greatly.
A GAs-PIPE bomb, with fuse attached, was
found on the 18th at the door of an orphan
asylum in a suburb of Cincinnati.
THE National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union met at Nashville, Tenn, on The
10th. An address was delivered by Miss
Willard, who urged that the Prohibition
party should declare as it's ultimate aim two
amendments to the National constitution,
one establishing universal prohibition and
the other enfranchisng women.
SIX men were blown to pieces on the 16 65h
by an explosion in the Hancock Chemical
Company's packing house for dynamite at
Ishpeming, Mich No trace of the men or
building was found such was the force of
the shock. - ,.-
THE buildings of the Ziegele Brewing Com
pany at Buffalo, N. Y, were burned on the
16sh. Loss, 81 $4,000; insurance, $780, 900
ISAAC SICKLE, wholesaler of laces and vel
vets at New York, failed on the 10Th for
$115, ,OOO
FIRES were raging all over Faulkner Coun-
ty, Ark, on the 10Th, burning houses, crops
ETC., and the inhabitants were forced to
alb andon their homes and seek places OF
safety.
MOVEMENT was inaugurated in New York
City on tie 10th to form society to op-
pose the Anarchists and Socialists in their
endeavor to overthrow the existing order
Of government.
THE testimony of James Whyte on the
10th to the effect that he had been hired by
the president of the Lambert & Bishop
Fence Company to set fire to the company's
mill caused big sensation at Joliet, III.
In political quarrel on the 10th at Lex
ington, Ky, Thomas Green, correspondent
of Cincinnati paper, shot and killed Lew
Baldwin, of Nicholasville, KY.
The inquest on the body of Louis Lingg,
the Chicago Anarchist, resulted on the 10Th
in verdict Of death caused by the explo-
sion of dynamite bomb fred with suicidal
intent. How he got possession of the bomb
was still a mystery.
THE Erie Pa) Rubber Company's factory
was destroyed by fire on the 10Th. Loss,
100000.
On the 10Th Carroll County, Ind, was
suffering from q water famine The wells.
c1sterns and streams were all drying up and
fires were sweeping the country
The National Fishery Association, in ses
sion on the 10th at New York, adopted
resolutions calling for protection against
the importation OF foreign fish, and for such
measures as will secure to American fisher
men the same rights in foreign ports that
foreign vessels enjoy in our harbors
FIRE on the 10th destroyed the buildings
of the Cheyenne River Indian agency at
Fort Bennett Loss, 100000
AN Italian workman fell nine hundred
feet down the Hecla mine shaft at Ishpem-
ing Mich, on the 18th, and was killed, and
three men fell down the shaft in the Anvil
mine at Bessemer, Mich, aud lost their
lives.
JOHANN MOST, the Anarchist, was arrested
| in New York on the 18th on an Indictment
for having made an incendiary speech cal
culated to incite a riot. The prisoner was
locked up.
The annual report ON the 18th of James
W. Hyatt, Treasurer of the United States.
shows that the revenues of the Government
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1887,
were $371 ,403, PIT; ordinary expenditures,
P267 1892, l7o; surplus receipts available
for the reduction of the public debt, $1O3,-
47l, ,O97 AS compared with the previous
year the receipts increased $34, ,963, $40,
the expenditures $25, AS, ,O4I and the sur
plus revenues SO, 514, 800 During the year
33,216,93 standard silver dollars were
coined
! On the 18th two dynamite bombs were
found at St Joseph, No., one having been
placed at the entrance to the city hail.
The implements were exploded and showed
terrific force. The chief Of police notified
| his men to shoot all Anarchists who re-
sisted arrest .s
| W. T. KEEFER's woolen mills and Patter-
son & Sessions flour mill at Camilus, N Y,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th Loss.
! 100000
ROBERT BONNER on the 18th announced
his retirement from the New York Ledger.
In the future the paper will be conducted
! by his three sons.
| REV. j. c. KIMBALL, of Hartford, Conn.
| pastor Of Unitarian church, who COM
pared the Chicago Anarchists with the
Saviour, was on the 18th called upon to re-
, s.gn his pulpit.
~ tlhE on tnS l. TN oG memphis, Ienn.,
destroyed the buildings of the Merchant &
Cotton Compress and Storage Company
with 13, 200 bales of cotton and several
congresses. Loss, $SOO,OOO.
The gold ledge recently discovered near
Presco Tt, A. T., was On the 18th said to be
the richest ever found in the country The
ledge could be traced for nearly two miles
and the quartz rock taken out averaged
81 90 600 a ton
Two MEN were killed and others were
fatally injured by the fall Of scaffold at
Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 18th, and at Syra-
cuse, N. Y, the falling of the walls of a
building that was recently burned caused
| the death of two men.
FORTY buildings in Newvadaville, Col
| were burned on the 18th.
AMONG the suicides on the 18th were the
following: john Reynolds, at Pleasanton,
Ia, for fear of arrest; Mrs H. Hartley, at
Nebraska City, Neb., owing to a quarrel
with her husband; Mrs. George Mcpherson,
at Des Moines. Ia, cause unknown; and
Captain A. H. Mills, at Detroit, Mich, after
killing Mrs. Austin Rising, with whom he
| was iDfatI1 ato